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Research paper thumbnail of Recent advances in Tungusic linguistics

Research paper thumbnail of Environmental Change and Sustainability of Indigenous Languages in Northern Alaska

Arctic, 2019

Relatively few people under the age of 60 are fluent speakers of the various Indigenous languages... more Relatively few people under the age of 60 are fluent speakers of the various Indigenous languages of Alaska. Concurrently, climate change is severely impacting Alaska and its residents, where environments are changing far more rapidly than the majority of the planet. These factors complicate the land-language nexus and may have implications for the sustainability of Indigenous languages in Alaska and other parts of the Arctic. In this collaborative, community-centered project, we spoke with Iñupiaq and Yupik language speakers to learn how rapid environmental change affects heritage language discourse practices and how generational gaps in levels of heritage language fluency affect safety and efficacy of customary and traditional land use activities. The results show how local community choices and attitudes are reflecting and constructing dynamic ecologies of language, culture, and environment. Iñupiaq and Yupik languages provide important forms of socio-cultural resilience because they embed the past, yet are inherently dynamic. Community-driven social practices that promote increased local heritage language use can lead to new, creative language domains, new expressions of Indigenous culture, and new Indigenous stances toward a changing environment. RÉSUMÉ. Relativement peu de personnes de moins de 60 ans parlent les diverses langues autochtones de l'Alaska couramment. En même temps, le changement climatique a de fortes incidences sur l'Alaska et ses habitants, où l'environnement change beaucoup plus vite que dans la majorité de la planète. Ces facteurs compliquent le lien entre la terre et la langue, sans compter qu'ils peuvent avoir des répercussions sur la durabilité des langues autochtones en Alaska et dans d'autres régions de l'Arctique. Dans le cadre de ce projet collaboratif axé sur la communauté, nous nous sommes entretenus avec des locuteurs parlant les langues des Iñupiaq et des Yupik afin d'apprendre comment les changements environnementaux rapides influencent les pratiques linguistiques patrimoniales et comment les écarts générationnels en ce qui a trait aux degrés de facilité verbale des langues du patrimoine influent sur la sécurité et l'efficacité des activités habituelles et traditionnelles liées à l'utilisation de la terre. Les résultats de l'étude illustrent comment les choix et les attitudes des gens de la région sont le reflet d'écologies dynamiques en matière de langue, de culture et d'environnement, et comment ils parviennent à former ces écologies. Les langues des Iñupiaq et des Yupik fournissent d'importantes formes de résilience socioculturelle parce qu'elles incorporent le passé tout en étant intrinsèquement dynamiques. Les pratiques sociales communautaires favorisant une utilisation accrue des langues du patrimoine local peuvent finir par engendrer de nouveaux domaines linguistiques créatifs, de nouvelles expressions de la culture autochtone et de nouvelles positions autochtones à l'égard de l'environnement changeant.

Research paper thumbnail of Vowel Harmony in Oroqen

Linguistic Discovery, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of Loanwords in Oroqen, a Tungusic language of China

Research paper thumbnail of Kinyarwanda Topics and Object-Subject Reversal

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction to typology: the unity and diversity of language

Research paper thumbnail of Endangered languages

Research paper thumbnail of Endangered languages: language loss and community response

... Contents Preface vii List of abbreviations and symbols xvii Part1 General issues 1 1 Western ... more ... Contents Preface vii List of abbreviations and symbols xvii Part1 General issues 1 1 Western language ideologies and small-language prospects Nancy C. Dorian 3 2 Toward a typology of language endangerment Lenore A. Grenoble and Lindsay J. Whaley 22 Part n Language ...

Research paper thumbnail of Saving languages: An introduction to language revitalization

Research paper thumbnail of Toward a typology of language endangerment

Endangered languages: language …, Jan 1, 1998

Page 42. Toward a typology of language endangerment LENORE A. GRENOBLE AND LINDSAY J. WHALEY Prog... more Page 42. Toward a typology of language endangerment LENORE A. GRENOBLE AND LINDSAY J. WHALEY Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Dartmouth College The fundamental cause for the disappearance of a human language is well known. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Saving languages

Research paper thumbnail of Endangered languages: Current issues and future prospects

… Journal of the …, Jan 1, 1996

... In Kinkade, M. Dale, Hale, Kenneth L. & Werner, Oswald (eds.), Linguistics and anthropolo... more ... In Kinkade, M. Dale, Hale, Kenneth L. & Werner, Oswald (eds.), Linguistics and anthropology: in honor of CF Voegelin. Lisse: Peter de Ridder. 249-262. ... Lenore A. Grenoble & Lindsay J. Whaley (eds.), Endangered languages: current issues and future prospects. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction to typology

Retour page d'accueil Chercher, sur, Tous les supports. Retour page d'accueil, ... more Retour page d'accueil Chercher, sur, Tous les supports. Retour page d'accueil, Plus de 1.619.000 de titres à notre catalogue ! Notice. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Locatives vs. instrumentals in Kinyarwanda

Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the …, Jan 1, 1991

Research paper thumbnail of Kinyarwanda multiple applicatives and the 2-AEX

28th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic …, Jan 1, 1992

Research paper thumbnail of The future of native languages

Research paper thumbnail of The status of obliques in linguistic theory

Unpublished Ph. D. Dissertation. SUNY at Buffalo, Jan 1, 1993

... Dissertation Information. Title: The Status of Obliques in Linguistic Theory, Add Dissertatio... more ... Dissertation Information. Title: The Status of Obliques in Linguistic Theory, Add Dissertation. Author: Lindsay Whaley, Update Dissertation. Email: click here to access email. Homepage: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~linguist/faculty/whaley.html. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Language Policy and the Loss of Tungusic Languages.

Language & Communication, Jan 1, 1999

EJ587898 - Language Policy and the Loss of Tungusic Languages.

Research paper thumbnail of The suffix-kan in Oroqen

Studies in language, Jan 1, 1998

Research paper thumbnail of Revisiting Tungusic classification from the bottom up: a comparison of Evenki and Oroqen

Research paper thumbnail of Recent advances in Tungusic linguistics

Research paper thumbnail of Environmental Change and Sustainability of Indigenous Languages in Northern Alaska

Arctic, 2019

Relatively few people under the age of 60 are fluent speakers of the various Indigenous languages... more Relatively few people under the age of 60 are fluent speakers of the various Indigenous languages of Alaska. Concurrently, climate change is severely impacting Alaska and its residents, where environments are changing far more rapidly than the majority of the planet. These factors complicate the land-language nexus and may have implications for the sustainability of Indigenous languages in Alaska and other parts of the Arctic. In this collaborative, community-centered project, we spoke with Iñupiaq and Yupik language speakers to learn how rapid environmental change affects heritage language discourse practices and how generational gaps in levels of heritage language fluency affect safety and efficacy of customary and traditional land use activities. The results show how local community choices and attitudes are reflecting and constructing dynamic ecologies of language, culture, and environment. Iñupiaq and Yupik languages provide important forms of socio-cultural resilience because they embed the past, yet are inherently dynamic. Community-driven social practices that promote increased local heritage language use can lead to new, creative language domains, new expressions of Indigenous culture, and new Indigenous stances toward a changing environment. RÉSUMÉ. Relativement peu de personnes de moins de 60 ans parlent les diverses langues autochtones de l'Alaska couramment. En même temps, le changement climatique a de fortes incidences sur l'Alaska et ses habitants, où l'environnement change beaucoup plus vite que dans la majorité de la planète. Ces facteurs compliquent le lien entre la terre et la langue, sans compter qu'ils peuvent avoir des répercussions sur la durabilité des langues autochtones en Alaska et dans d'autres régions de l'Arctique. Dans le cadre de ce projet collaboratif axé sur la communauté, nous nous sommes entretenus avec des locuteurs parlant les langues des Iñupiaq et des Yupik afin d'apprendre comment les changements environnementaux rapides influencent les pratiques linguistiques patrimoniales et comment les écarts générationnels en ce qui a trait aux degrés de facilité verbale des langues du patrimoine influent sur la sécurité et l'efficacité des activités habituelles et traditionnelles liées à l'utilisation de la terre. Les résultats de l'étude illustrent comment les choix et les attitudes des gens de la région sont le reflet d'écologies dynamiques en matière de langue, de culture et d'environnement, et comment ils parviennent à former ces écologies. Les langues des Iñupiaq et des Yupik fournissent d'importantes formes de résilience socioculturelle parce qu'elles incorporent le passé tout en étant intrinsèquement dynamiques. Les pratiques sociales communautaires favorisant une utilisation accrue des langues du patrimoine local peuvent finir par engendrer de nouveaux domaines linguistiques créatifs, de nouvelles expressions de la culture autochtone et de nouvelles positions autochtones à l'égard de l'environnement changeant.

Research paper thumbnail of Vowel Harmony in Oroqen

Linguistic Discovery, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of Loanwords in Oroqen, a Tungusic language of China

Research paper thumbnail of Kinyarwanda Topics and Object-Subject Reversal

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction to typology: the unity and diversity of language

Research paper thumbnail of Endangered languages

Research paper thumbnail of Endangered languages: language loss and community response

... Contents Preface vii List of abbreviations and symbols xvii Part1 General issues 1 1 Western ... more ... Contents Preface vii List of abbreviations and symbols xvii Part1 General issues 1 1 Western language ideologies and small-language prospects Nancy C. Dorian 3 2 Toward a typology of language endangerment Lenore A. Grenoble and Lindsay J. Whaley 22 Part n Language ...

Research paper thumbnail of Saving languages: An introduction to language revitalization

Research paper thumbnail of Toward a typology of language endangerment

Endangered languages: language …, Jan 1, 1998

Page 42. Toward a typology of language endangerment LENORE A. GRENOBLE AND LINDSAY J. WHALEY Prog... more Page 42. Toward a typology of language endangerment LENORE A. GRENOBLE AND LINDSAY J. WHALEY Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Dartmouth College The fundamental cause for the disappearance of a human language is well known. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Saving languages

Research paper thumbnail of Endangered languages: Current issues and future prospects

… Journal of the …, Jan 1, 1996

... In Kinkade, M. Dale, Hale, Kenneth L. & Werner, Oswald (eds.), Linguistics and anthropolo... more ... In Kinkade, M. Dale, Hale, Kenneth L. & Werner, Oswald (eds.), Linguistics and anthropology: in honor of CF Voegelin. Lisse: Peter de Ridder. 249-262. ... Lenore A. Grenoble & Lindsay J. Whaley (eds.), Endangered languages: current issues and future prospects. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction to typology

Retour page d'accueil Chercher, sur, Tous les supports. Retour page d'accueil, ... more Retour page d'accueil Chercher, sur, Tous les supports. Retour page d'accueil, Plus de 1.619.000 de titres à notre catalogue ! Notice. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Locatives vs. instrumentals in Kinyarwanda

Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the …, Jan 1, 1991

Research paper thumbnail of Kinyarwanda multiple applicatives and the 2-AEX

28th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic …, Jan 1, 1992

Research paper thumbnail of The future of native languages

Research paper thumbnail of The status of obliques in linguistic theory

Unpublished Ph. D. Dissertation. SUNY at Buffalo, Jan 1, 1993

... Dissertation Information. Title: The Status of Obliques in Linguistic Theory, Add Dissertatio... more ... Dissertation Information. Title: The Status of Obliques in Linguistic Theory, Add Dissertation. Author: Lindsay Whaley, Update Dissertation. Email: click here to access email. Homepage: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~linguist/faculty/whaley.html. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Language Policy and the Loss of Tungusic Languages.

Language & Communication, Jan 1, 1999

EJ587898 - Language Policy and the Loss of Tungusic Languages.

Research paper thumbnail of The suffix-kan in Oroqen

Studies in language, Jan 1, 1998

Research paper thumbnail of Revisiting Tungusic classification from the bottom up: a comparison of Evenki and Oroqen